THE BRITISH THREAD II

You're ALL up very early on a Sunday!

According to a report in today's Observer, the Met Office warned ministers months ago about floodings.

And they said Noah.

Hey Mrs McTag is going to Bruges today- well Hull, actually.

I found out the name Bruges is from old Norse bryggje, meaning a landing-stage.

The Hull Booze Cruise it is known as. Eat as much as you can for £12.

Not that I've subjected myself to the horrors of it but I've smoked some baccy that was imported by that route.

Re : foot filing.

My friend's son was rubbing at his soles with her foot file and asked her what all the white powdery stuff was (eurgh). She told him it was "foot cheese". He then sniffed the foot file and said it smelled like Rainbow Drops.

You are no doubt referring to contra-band goods! Stealing from the crown and thinking it is a clever act.

Perhaps, if all tobacco sold in this country was channelled through the legal outlets and the revenue correctly applied a reasonable case for not banning smoking could have been a possibility.

As it is, people of your calibre, encouraging theft from the chancellors purse are usually the first to start moaning and groaning when it all go's pear-shaped!

Horrors schmorrors. Her group has nice cabins, and they will all have a lovely time.
I'm quite envious.

Q: who can tell me the difference in meaning between the words envy and jealousy?

envy: - Envy is the desire for another's traits, status, abilities, station, or worldly goods. It need not be associated with an object; its salient characteristic is the unfovorable comparison of one's own status with that of another

jealousy: - Jealousy is an emotion experienced by one who perceives that another person is giving something that s/he wants (typically attention, love, or affection) to a third party.

Pretty different, no?

I do envy some people but I'm not jealous...

Formidable, mon ami. Vive le difference.

Plenty folks here use them interchangeably in error.

Mathos wrote-



I never moan and groan.

And there is a school of economic thinking, the Hutber school it might be called, which thinks that the chancellor has far too much money. Milton Friedman and Nigel Lawson and Norman Lamont were all adherents. Mrs Thatcher thought she was but she wasn't.

They all knew the correct usage of the apostrophe as well.

The people of the south-east, where most tax money is spent per head, which is why infant mortality is lower there, can easily nip across on the ferry for their supplies and it is quite legal. You seem to be arguing for a fine to be levied on people who live up north. How can we use 120 quids worth of juice and not come back with a lot of stuff. And the juice is highly taxed.

Are you a paid or unpaid propagandist for the south-east corner. If it's the latter it is called a "dupe".

You self-righteous little lickspittle of a shirtlap sniffer forever at the service of your southern puppet-masters!

Well I never. I must be thinking of somebody else then.

Envy is a sense of vexation, mild or strong, at the good fortune of others accompanied by varying degrees of ill-will and maliciousness.

Jealousy has a number of meanings-

1-Indignation aroused by envy.

2-Eagerness to serve and anxious to preserve something as in " He was jealous of the good reputation of his club."

3- An emotion caused by the suspicion, apprehension or knowledge of a rival.

The first is very similar to envy. Roget gives jealousy, green-eyed monster and envy in close proximity.

Mac-

You might be kind enough if you will to show me where I have moaned and groaned. It might be that your sense of irony has been whetted on a dishcloth.

You really do need to offer an example. I hope you've not got a touch of assertivitis. It is a dangerous condition because it causes people to avoid your company or at least wish to. It gets on their nerves after a short while. With me a very short while.

It's not catching though. Those who haven't retained its playpen usages can't catch it. They are immunised. Usually on a grand scale. It amuses me no end to listen to a bunch of pissed assertivics in the pub.

SPENDIUS

I never moan and groan.



I can't type for f'ing laughing!

Spendy, moaning and groaning is all that you do....well okay, 90% of what you do, depending on mood.

I'm not going to argue this, it is as far as I'm concerned and in the words of Jack Straw and many before him a case of res ipse loquitur.

I'm going to play my DVD.

Spendi..........!!!!

You're off your bloody rocker, Are you aware of that?

I am sixty one years of age, I have seen 'em come and go and I've seen them fall!

I have never in my life come across such a contrary, brain damaged, idiotic, psychotic, lunatic like you.

Your not real mate...Your a figment of my bloody imagination, it cannot possibly be authentic, what I see you type (tripe)! Your quite mad you know! Bonkers, stark raving bloody bonkers with the biggest capital B one could ever imagine being in existence throughout whatever the heavens may be?

You actually believe all this **** you put down, don't you! You have an egomanical not egotistical,{ that's far too mild an expression.} and see yourself as a prophet, not just any old prophet either, you I am certain would accept a crucifixion to satisfy your total insanity.

Now, I have to enquire of this and I am very serious in my application, are you ready for this?


Are you the Christ?

Just be honest with this answer as well!

In the REAL WORLD has anyone suggested you might just be Jesus?

jesus spendius christ

eees not the son of god

eeees a vrry noughty boy

We know that Steve, but what if Spendi, is The Christ!

Are we his disciples?

if spendi's christ then im ****ing mohammed

(Spendius is not the earthly representation of the second coming of our Lord or anything else if you ask me)